Portrait of Global Fires with Zoom to Rodeo/Chediski Fire with Clock

  • Released Thursday, September 5, 2002
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This animation shows a unique picture of seasonal and yearly fire activity. Here, global fire activity is displayed as tiny particles on a rotating globe with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset displays the date.

This animation shows global fire activity 7-1-2001 and 8-20-2002. During June 2002, a close view of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire is shown. A clock overlay indicates the date.

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Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. Fire location data courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project (NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland). The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

This page was originally published on Thursday, September 5, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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